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ie Sunny Side Se the House 


Make Every Side the ‘Sunny Side’ 
with More and Larger Windows 


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AMERICAN WINDOW GLASS COMPANY 
World’s Largest “Producer of Window Glass 
PITTSBURGH, PA. 


Also Manufacturers of QUARTZ-LITE, the Ultra Violet Ray Glass 


“Sunshine’s Divine Caress” 


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Copyright, 1928, by 
AMERICAN WinDow Gtass CoMpANY 


Printed in U.S.A. 


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The Sunny Side of the House 


“Truly the light is sweet, and 
pleasant it 1s to behold the sun.” 


ROBABLY no Other single material has played 
P a more important part in the development 
of health and comfort in the modern home than 
window glass. The history of civilization par- 
allels the history of windows and window glass. 

Man has progressively emerged from the dark- 
ness and gloom of his prehistoric dungeons and 
caves, first by building openings, and finally by 
covering them with window glass. Now he lives 
in the sunlight, although adequately protected 
from the inclemencies of the weather. 

Today, the tendency is toward still more and 
larger windows. New homes are being planned 
with bays and dormers where formerly only 
blank walls and roofs would have been. Now- 
a-days, nearly every new house has its sun parlor 


or glass-enclosed porch. Attics are no longer 


waste space. Basements are no longer dungeons. 


Windows have made them bright and usable. 


“A.W. G.”’ Clear-Vision Window Glass 


The American Window Glass Company pro- 
duces a highly perfected glass of beautiful lus- 
tre, graded to the highest possible standard and 
knownas“‘A.W.G.”’ Clear-Vision Window Glass. 

Its production is made possible by a process 
conducted on scientific principles, bya Company 
built on a foundation of over a century's experi- 
ence in the making of window glass, and by an 
organization of highly skilled employees, who 
pride themselves on their workmanship as great- 
ly as the Company prides itself on its product. 

Every user can obtain » ALW.G.’’ ‘Clear 


Vision Window Glass by insisting on it. Have 


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the architect or contractor write “A.W.G.”’ 
Clear-Vision Window Glass into the speci- 
fications. If you are buying direct from the 
dealer or sash and door manufacturer, insist on 
“A.W.G. Clear-Vision. It costs “io” more 
than glass of inferior quality. 

You can make your home brighter, cheeriter, 
and a pleasanter place to live with more and 
larger windows. It isn’t necessary to wait until 
you build—an old house, if it is substantially 
built, can be remodeled and modernized by 


cutting in a window here and there, making a 


sun parlor out of the porch, adding a dormer, 
or any other touch your fancy dictates. The 
cost is not high—window glass costs less per 
square foot of wall space than lumber, tile or 
brick. Moreover, you add more to the value of 
your house than the cost of the improvement. 
In the following pages we have endeavored 
to visualize the effect of glass on the physical 
appearance of houses of various types. It is 
hoped that these visualizations will prove of 
real practical value, not only in building a new 


home, but 1n remodeling an old one, as well. 


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A sun parlor can be made 
an attractive architectural 
feature. In anycase,itshould 
conform with the architec- 
tural style of the house. 


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In most homes where there is a sun 
parlor, it ts the most popular room in 
the house. Bright, cheerful, and in- 
formal, it is a delightful place to 
spend idle moments basking, sewing, 
or reading. An ‘‘A.W.G.’’-glazed 
sun parlor is an ideal place for the 
children to play when the weather does 
not permit them to be outside. 

When building a sun parlor, make 
as much of its wall area of glass as 
possible. Let the glass extend all the 
way to the floor and on three sides if 
practicable. 


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NcE the dawn of civilization, mankind has 

been steadily emerging from the darkness 
and gloom in which he made his home in pre- 
historic times. The first instinct of man is shel- 
ter—protection. His earliest home was in the 
recesses of nature, the pits and the caves, the 
bowers of the forests, or those built by his own 
hand. 

Shelter and protection once attained, the 
second great instinct of man began to assert 
itself and he reached out to regain the sunlight 
which he had temporarily relinquished in be- 
half of safety. 

Picture, if you can, the cave of prehistoric 
man. Lucky was the family whose cave had an 
exceedingly small entrance and through which 
no animal could enter. Lucky was he who 
possessed a cave with a small aperture above, 
through which smoke might escape, and the 
stones of enemies find no entrance. Ventilation, 


however, was a matter of lesser importance be- 


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Iris always nice to have a porch, and 
the wider and roomier it is, the better. 
But at best, a porch can be used only 
when the weather is mild and warm, 
and in most climates that means not 
more than three or four months out of 
the year. 

A glass enclosure makes the porch 
usable twelve months in the year. It 
adds another room to the house—a sun 
parlor. An enclosure of ‘‘A.W.G.” 
Clear-Vision Glass can be built on the 
porch at very little expense. 


cause the rigors of prehistoric weather demand- 
ed the conservation of animal body heat. There 
were no windows. 

As the race grew in numbers, natural caves 
became scarce, and like other animals, man be- 
gan to burrow, to dig pits in hillsides of clay, 
and even in the hidden bottoms of valleys. 
Boulders rolled to and from the entrance barred 
enemies and predatory animals, and, like the 
caves, each door had the skin of an animal to 
exclude the interior from the outerworld. 

Still there were no windows for, much as 
man must have felt the need of the life-giving 
sunshine which he doubtless worshipped, the 
instincts of protection prevailed. 

With the beginning of agriculture came the 
desirability of forsaking the hillside pit for 
those dug straight down in the valleys. First a 
few boughs formed the roof, then some genius 
filled in the interstices with clay, and the first 
roof came into existence. 

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magic that can be worked 
with glass—the least ex- 
pensive of all materials 
used for walls. Get an esti- 
mate on the cost of remod- 
eling your house, from 
architect or contractor. 


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cling your house, from 
architect or contractor. 


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A VERY practical way of enlarging a 
small room is to add a bay window. A 
bay ts always architecturally interest- 
ing both from the inside and outside. It 
is one of the oldest forms of windows. 
A bay makes a room seem much larger 
by bringing in the sunlight and afford- 
ing @ broader view of outdoors. It is 
especially adaptable to a room having 
only one exposure. In adding a bay, be 
sure to glaze it with ‘“‘A.W.G.” 
Clear-Vision Window Glass. 


shelters. No fires could be built underground as 
ventilation was impossible, and a smoke hole 
in the roof, even if such could have been effec- 
tive, not only would have weakened the simple 
roof structure, but would have provided a breach 
which enemies might enlarge to gain entrance. 
Of course, there were still no windows. Civil- 
ization was barely breathing. 

The pit dwellings were dug three or four feet 
indepth with the roof ona level with the ground. 
Then began the era of walls which has con- 
tinued to this day, an era in which mankind 
has progressed from structures a single foot in 
height to those which rise to the height of 50 
or 6o stories, all made possible by window glass. 

Man first began to build above the ground in 
the form of circles which is so characteristic of 
nature and primitive instincts. This was the easi- 
est form of construction and the strongest that 
could be effected with the simple tools and ma- 
terials available. Later evidence of this construc- 
tion is found in the round, conical charcoal 


burner’s hut of early English periods, and the 


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bay or an extra window 
is surprisingly low—ask 
your architect or contrac- 
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As in many of the arts, the French 
have excelled in architecture, and from 
them we have borrowed the French 
window. The chief characteristic of 
this charming bit of French creative 
genius is its close kinship with the 
door. Instead of stopping about two or 
three feet from the floor, it goes all the 
way down to the floor, and, instead of 
Sliding up and down like the ordinary 
Sash, it opens in the middle, each half 
swinging on hinges like a door. An 
“A.W.G.”’-glazed French window 
serves the double purpose of window 
and door, giving the maximum of 
light and quick access to porch or 
terrace. 


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cone-shaped tepeesofour own American Indians. 

Century upon century passed before walls of 
mud and clay gave way to those of wood or 
stone, and ages elapsed before the round hut was 
superseded by the rectangular hall house. 

Community life developed community war- 
fare, and man, ensconced behind high walls of 
wood and stone, felt the necessity of observing 
the approach of the enemy from afar, and also 
some sheltered place from which he could 
launch his spears, javelins, arrows, or rocks 
when attacked. Construction had so progressed 
and masonry work had so developed, that open- 
ings in walls were devised. 

At first the matter of sunlight, of sanitation, 
was not a consideration in spite of the numerous 
families which lived, ate, and slept together in 
one large hall. The idea was protection,—de- 
fense,—first, last and always. 

The early Anglo-Saxon names for windows 
tell something of the purpose for which they 
were made. Eag-Thurle means an eye hole, and 


Eag-Durn means an eye door. 


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all-glass door and a com- 
modious sun parlor have 
transformed thisrathercom- 
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into a really up-to-date and 
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A new doorway with the 
all-glass door and a com- 
modious sun parlor have 
transformed thisrathercom- 
monplace-looking house 
into a really up-to-date and 
attractive home. 


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io CLOSE relative of the French win- 
dow is the French door. Quite as chic 
and stylish as the French window, it 
serves the additional purpose of clos- 
ing off the opening between two rooms, 
at the same time transmitting the sun- 
light from room to room. While many 
decorators prefer the plain clear glass. 
of French doors, filmy curtains can be 
added for greater privacy between the 
rooms if desired. Because of its bril- 
liant lustre and crystal clearness, 
“A.W.G.”’ Clear-Vision Window 
Glass is ideal for French doors. 


For defensive reasons these early eye holes 
were made exceedingly small so as to minimize 
the entrance of arrows and other missiles. Often 
they were mere slits in the walls, and set far 
back beyond the outer wall surface. Neverthe- 
less they admitted enough sunlight and air to 
be an appreciable influence in behalf of their 
enlargement. 

Later, particularly on continental Europe, 
came the development of the outstanding or 
overlooking window from which an attacking 
force could be viewed and repulsed from three 
angles. The desirability of more defenders in 
action at one time was one reason for the en- 
largement of the sight openings which we now 
call windows. 

Thousands of years after man’s advent upon 
earth he invented the windowed habitation and 
began to extricate himself from the tangled 
web of unsanitation and inconvenience which 
did so much to prevent his progress. 

Only a few centuries after he built the first 


windowed wall, he has achieved a stage of civil- 


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Paruaps the earliest form of window 
sash was the casement—a sash open- 
ing on hinges at the side. The sliding 
sash is a modern idea. The walls of 
medieval castles were relieved here and 
there with casement windows, high 
above the moat, on towers and turrets, 
although these were merely latticed in- 
stead of glazed. It is probably this 
association with the romance of the 
feudal age that makes them so popular 
today. An ‘*‘A.W.G.’’-glazed case- 
ment window can be placed in that 
blank wall space at very little expense. 


ization and advancement not duplicated in hu- 
man history. And windows and window glass 
have played no small part in this human race 
towards betterment. 

When eye holes betame no longer useful for 
defense they were still retained, for men had 
now come to appreciate not only their beauty 
and architectural value, but also the sanitation, 
health, and life enjoyment they made possible. 

Then the eye ‘holes or eye dootssbecame 
shuttered, and later sheets of parchment were 
stretched across the open expanses. This parch- 
ment admitted sunlight, kept warmth within 
and tempest without. Humanity was now on 
the right track. 

Then window glass began to be manufactured, 
superseding the covering of oiled parchment, 
modern architecture began, modern sanitation 
had its birth and a new era dawned. 

And it is window glass that has made win- 
dows possible. Crude at first, uneven in texture, 
thickness and color, it has been perfected to a 


point where it has become a main reliance of 


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way to add it is by building 
sun parlors. In this house, the 

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way to add it is by building 
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Anotuer charming architectural de- 
tail borrowed from the French is the 
dormer window which breaks the roof- 
line. Because of the extremely steep 
roof which came down almost to the 
ceiling line of the first floor on the old 
French chateaux, dormer windows 
were necessary to make the second floor 
usable. 

Dormer windows can easily be added 
to an existing house. They not only add 
to the attractiveness of the exterior, but 
are a means of bringing sunlight into 
the attic. Have them glazed with 
“A.W.G.”’ Clear-Vision Window 
Glass. 


architects in their efforts towards architectural 
beauty and sanitation. 

What would we do today without window 
glass? Sunshine would not flood our homes and 
deadly germs would thrive in dark, gloomy 
corners. We could not sit warm or comfortable 
in our homes and gaze on nature's beauty out- 
doors. We would still be lost, groping souls, 
still in the clutches of a life which would stag- 
nate progress. 

Windows—windows, more and yet more 
windows. Glass and yet more glass. Each step 
of human advancement has been accompanied 
by the use of greater expanses of glass to let the 
sunshine in. 

Life needs sunshine, and plenty of window 
glass lets in plenty of it. Doctors and scientists 
advocate sunlight as a means of prolonging 
human life, and the trend of public and domestic 
construction shows that in the ever increasing 
size of windows, modern civilization realizes 
the importance of window glass, appreciates 


its value, and is using more and more of it. 


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By lighting the attic with 
a four-windowed dormer 
and adding a sun porch, 
the space in this home 
has been almost doubled. 


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By lighting the attic with 
a four-windowed dormer 
and adding a sun porch, 
the space in this home 
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Bene too, can be made far more 
cheerful with more and larger windows. 
Why should a basement be a dark, 
damp, mouldy place for furnaces and 
coal and wash tubs? There is no reason 
in the world why it shouldn't be used 
for playroom, workshop, or billiard 
room. Extra windows will keep it dry 
and bright and healthy. Glazed with 
“A.W.G.”’ Clear-Vision Window 
Glass, they will admit the maximum 


light. 


Waar to do with the attic is always 
a question with the home owner or 
builder. Most attics are waste space 
simply because they are not adequately 
lighted. In addition to dormer win- 
dows, large windows in the gable ends 
go far toward brightening up the attic 
and making it cheerful and usable. A 
three-sashed window such as is illus- 
trated above fits very nicely in a gable- 
end. Glazed with ‘‘A.W.G.’’ Clear- 
Vision Window Glass, it admits the 
maximum amount of light. 


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Waren is a sun parlor a conserva- 
tory? Many an amateur horticulturist 
has crowded out the family by filling 
the sun parlor with potted plants. 
Why not have a conservatory—a “sun 
parlor’’ just for the plants? A small 
one glazed with ‘‘A.W.G.’” Clear- 
Vision Window Glass can be built for 
very little money and will afford you 
the luxury of flowers all year ‘round. 


There is nothing quite so uninviting 
and unneighborly-looking as a front 
door of the usual wood frame and 
panels. Note how much more friendly- 
looking and hospitable the door above 
has been made simply by the addition 
of the panes of glass in the door itself, 
the casements on either side and the 
fanlight above. An improvement of 
this kind, specifying ““A.W.G.” 
Clear-Vision Window Glass costs re- 
markably little. 


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“A.W.G.” Clear-Vision Window Glass 


HE discovery that there is a wide difference 
Ab between various grades and kinds of win- 
dow glass comes as a surprise to many home 
builders. To most of us, window glass 1s just 
window glass, and all window glass is alike. 
However, if you were to hold two pieces of 
window glass of different make side by side and 
compare them, you would see a distinct differ- 
ence, noticeable even to the unpracticed eye. 

“A.W.G.”’ Clear-Vision Window Glass is a 
product of the American Window Glass Com- 
pany. For over twenty-five years it has been the 
preference of architects, contractors, builders 
and dealers everywhere. Because of its high 
quality, uniform thickness, greater tensile 
strength, brilliant lustre, and freedom from de- 


fects, discoloration, fading and stain,‘‘A.W.G.” 


Clear-Vision is used in the finest of buildings. 
The American Window Glass Company is the 
largest and oldest manufacturer of window 
glass in America. To its wonderful ingenuity 
and resources are due the modernizing of a proc- 
ess Over 400 years old, and the manufacture of 
cleaner, better, stronger window glass than had 
ever been used by man. The American Window 
Glass Company has six modern plants, with capac- 
ity to produce over 60 per cent of all the win- 
dow glass required in this country. 
Quartz-Litsz, the ultra-violet ray glass for 
windows, also, is made by the American Win- 
dow Glass Company. For further information 
about this wonderful glass and the remarkable 
curative properties of theultra-violetrays which 


it transmits, write directly to our home office. 


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